Ben Jones

Wondering who Ben Jones is?  Ask Adam and he will tell you...he lives in the basement of Mimi and Bapa's house.  How horrid does that sound?  It all started when David and Ryan were very young and Uncle Russell made up the story of Ben Jones.

According to Uncle Russell, Ben was a long lost Jones boy of Mimi and Bapa who got stuck in the basement and never returned.  Really it's a wretched thought, but whatever it's what he said.  So the idea of Ben turned legend and has been a running joke, but Adam has clung to it as truth.  He is slightly tormented at the idea of a man living in the basement of his grandparents and of course Uncle Russell has embellished the story of Ben to Adam's sheer terror.

For weeks, I have been trying to convince Adam that Ben is not real.  And let me just say Adam does not believe me for one second.  We even staged an extermination of Ben.  Uncle David went down the basement to get rid of Ben, but Adam didn't buy it.  Meanwhile, Adam boldly speaks about Ben to his teachers, babysitters and friends and I go behind him explaining Ben's ever so strange and slightly funny existence.